Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eastern fringe of European Russia. In some respects, the account resembled descriptions of new plants in U.S. boom towns. As yet the factory is unkempt and ragged. A railroad has been laid, but there are no busses or streetcars. In the spring and fall "it is no pleasant matter for the Workers to make their way home through the welling mud." But the vast factory hums with work, and thousands pass through its gates each shift. The buildings are camouflaged, for when they were built the foe was still within raiding radius...
...SERGEANT we know was breezing down Massachusetts Avenue on a recent Sunday morning when he noticed a full COLONEL approaching. Our sergeant friend threw his very best highball, and the colonel spoke a pleasant work. "Good morning, Corporal," he said...
Gradually Jeffries' hammering, six-speeches-a-night campaign told against FitzGerald's infrequent and stumble-tongue appearances. On a bright, pleasant election day, 383,000 Detroiters went to the polls, gave victory to Jeffries by almost...
True To Life (Paramount) is not true enough to be tearful, not false enough to be flat. It is a pleasant, rather cynical comedy in which Franchot Tone, Dick Powell and Mary Martin arrange an Anschluss between the never-never-land of radio and the hardly-ever-land of a "genuine" grey-collar family, Borough of Queens...
...MIRAKEL -E. Phillips Oppenheim - Little, Brown ($2). The Oppen-heimily-colored, romantic and adventurous tale of a rich London hotel owner who transported a bevy of war-weary cosmopolites to a fantastic Utopia where man, of course, decided to be entertainingly vile. Good Oppenheim and pleasant diversion for an empty evening...